Amazons patent 8,676,045, granted in March and titled Studio Arrangement, describes a particular configuration of the photography subject in the foreground and a brightly lit white screen behind, an approach that blows out the background to cleanly isolate the subject. Its a fine idea, but not a novel invention, argued David Hobby, a professional photographer since 1988 who runs the Strobist site that for years has been a popular source of advice on flash photography. He used the approach himself as a staff photographer on his first job decades ago for a business publication.
Posted on: Mon, 12 May 2014 14:45:37 +0000
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